Comments on: For sale from Pivotal Initiative: Cloud Foundry

By: James Watters

James Watters — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:57:04 +0000

Thanks for validating our statements with the facts Ted! I should have provided that link as well.

By: Ted M. Young

Ted M. Young — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:55:30 +0000

The nice thing about open-source projects stored in an open environment such as Github is that you can fact-check arguments like “removed some time ago”. You can look at this graph: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release/graphs/commit-activity and see there’s been at least 5 commits to the repo for the past year (and averaging more like 10-15 per week).

By: James Watters

James Watters — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:47:22 +0000

It was always on Github.

In 2011 it was updated from a private repo at intervals, and then in 2012 we switched to real-time once we fixed our tooling to allow it–but as Andy mentions our acceptance process for code in 2012 was Gerrit based (same as used by the Android OSS team), which some found more difficult to use. It is now back to being both on Github, and following the Github process for pull requests.

By: James Watters

James Watters — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 01:30:36 +0000

David (who I know from Mongo blogging fame)

Appfog, Uhuru, Activestate, Cloud-elements, Stark & Wayne, etc are all outstanding smaller company partners, and many of them have won large and outstanding customers and deals.

At the same time we also have great large enterprise partners who have built CF offerings in NTT, Dell, HP and many more big names you mention that I can’t list yet. These are the kinds of companies calling us to put dedicated engineering on the project.

The real beneficiaries of the project though are customers and I am thrilled about the customer list we are developing just weeks into selling anything related to Cloud Foundry. The combined salesforce reach of EMC and VMware is a pretty amazing machine to behold.

Best-
James

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:15:59 +0000

i was told it went from a public to a private Git repository and specifically that it was taken off Github. that is not correct?

By: David Mytton

David Mytton — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:37:28 +0000

I wonder how the changes and uncertainty over the last few months have affected the overall perception of the project. OpenStack is known to be supported by some big names in development (Red Hat), hardware (HP, Dell), networking (Cisco), infrastructure (Rackspace) and has recently been given massive enterprise credibility by IBM.

It’s encouraging to see cloud companies like AppFog back Cloud Foundry but has the race already been won?

By: Andy Piper

Andy Piper — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:00:09 +0000

To clarify – Cloud Foundry’s code has *always* been on Github. “It had been removed some time ago” is just not accurate. Over the past 9 months (to Jan 2013) we were using a Gerrit-backed review model for pull requests, but we are now fully on a Github pull request model.